Take a look at the motor page I posted. Published in 1964 it's pretty comprehensive. Some stuff there I never heard of or saw. I think it would great to see some oddball motors, Tradeships, Bonners, VIP etc. Why not allow any motor mods that can be substantiated ( magazine article etc. ) prior to '64 to be legal. Of course, this would put me at a disadvantage because I will most likely be running a Stocker.

WOW! You guys are amazing! I have always been amazed with the Proxy race format but not being a "builder of cars" I watch. This really has my interest but doubtful I would participate as my time is very limited.

I will watch with great interest however and thank ALL who are involved in this great venture.

We had another thought, developed from the original idea: what about opening this up to all pre-1960 Grand Prix cars?

The original proposal was for pre-war cars, but that didn't seem to inspire too many of you. But it seems that carving a 50s type GP car would be a lot easier for us beginners than trying a sports or GT car... We could still keep the sports/GT category for those interested, but also add 50s GP cars - which were also really the "star" class at the time, and up to about 1966 or so, when the sports cars began taking over...

And did you notice that all the articles describe how to build a GP car?

I'm all for including that era of GP and Indy car too. I think Brad Korando did a really nice Pine Wood Derby Indy Roadster awhile back and I'd like to try my hand at carving something like that or a Novi in 1/24.

Wow, great memory Bob, I'm flattered you remembered my Kurtis. I used the 1:24 Monogram kit of the 1956 Filter Queen Special as the basis of the car. I scavenged many of the plastic bits and decals to make the car, but the body was carved from a block of white pine. Here's are a couple of pictures of the car.

I have no problem dividing up the cars into classes and scales. But how to score the whole thing? Doesn't a 1/24th scale car handle better than a 1/32?

Quite honestly, I don't have enough experience in building and racing to be able to offer a qualified answer to the second question. I was thinking in terms of the GP cars and what motors would fit inside a wood body. At 1:24 you could fit most, if not all, of the in-line motors such as a Pittman 196B. At 1:32 that would be a tough motor to fit inside a wood body shell where as an MRRC Slim line or K's would fit nicely. In this comparison I think that the 196B would outperform the MRRC or K's motors.As for the first question, perhaps the racing part of the competition be structured such that 1:24 cars compete only against other 1:24 cars and the same for the 1:32 scale cars.

Again, I really don't have a lot of experience in this sort of thing and there is a very good chance, probable in fact, that I know not what I speak!Regards,Brad

I'm really excited about the prospects of carving a body, so today I dug out an old pair of outside calipers to use, went to the hobby shop and bought a bag full of miscellaneous sized Balsa wood, and found another potentially useful site browsing the 'net

Although probably very challenging, I'm thinking of a 1/24 scale late '50's sports car for myself, mainly so it will be wide enough to squeeze in a Pittman 706.

Just waiting for the rules to see if making the show is do-able for me, and then hopefully joining in the fray.

I was able to see Rodney's project in person at our local track a couple of weeks ago and he informed me of this thread. I always get excited when Rodney allows me the opportunity to see the progress of his latest slot car project. Very KOOL!